Incredibly honored to receive the 2026 Ross Kecseg Memorial "Fearless Conservative" Award from #GAWTP last night. I am grateful for the patriots all across Texas, and America, who I’ve been privileged to lock arms with in the fight to preserve LIBERTY!
While, unfortunately, I’m often fighting alone in Austin against government growth and liberal policies… I know I’m standing in solidarity with the overwhelming majority of freedom loving, hardworking, patriotic men and women of Texas… and I’m grateful beyond words for their encouragement, prayers, and support.
Thank you, JoAnn Fleming, for your fearless leadership guiding the largest grassroots conservative organization in Texas.
And it was a real honor sharing a stage and getting to visit with Vice President J.D. Vance’s mother, “Ms. Bev,” who was an amazing and inspirational keynote speaker!
President Reagan once said that America was the “last best hope” for mankind on Earth, and I believe that Texas may be the last best hope for liberty in America.
With leftists fighting to destroy the greatest nation in history, now is not the time for comfortable timidity in the Texas Capitol. More than ever, we need courageous leadership that remembers that the number one role for government is to protect our GOD-GIVEN FREEDOMS.
Texas should have the boldest, most pro-LIBERTY government in America!
I’ll keep fighting to make government as irrelevant to our lives as possible, so we can be as free as God meant for us to be!!
God Bless Texas!!!
While, unfortunately, I’m often fighting alone in Austin against government growth and liberal policies… I know I’m standing in solidarity with the overwhelming majority of freedom loving, hardworking, patriotic men and women of Texas… and I’m grateful beyond words for their encouragement, prayers, and support.
Thank you, JoAnn Fleming, for your fearless leadership guiding the largest grassroots conservative organization in Texas.
And it was a real honor sharing a stage and getting to visit with Vice President J.D. Vance’s mother, “Ms. Bev,” who was an amazing and inspirational keynote speaker!
President Reagan once said that America was the “last best hope” for mankind on Earth, and I believe that Texas may be the last best hope for liberty in America.
With leftists fighting to destroy the greatest nation in history, now is not the time for comfortable timidity in the Texas Capitol. More than ever, we need courageous leadership that remembers that the number one role for government is to protect our GOD-GIVEN FREEDOMS.
Texas should have the boldest, most pro-LIBERTY government in America!
I’ll keep fighting to make government as irrelevant to our lives as possible, so we can be as free as God meant for us to be!!
God Bless Texas!!!
Tarrant County CUTS PROPERTY TAXES; again!
"Anyone who tells you that cutting taxes means gutting services has not looked at what we just did. We proved the opposite. You cut waste, you set priorities..."
- County Judge #TimothyOHare
This is the way!
cc: all local officials
"Anyone who tells you that cutting taxes means gutting services has not looked at what we just did. We proved the opposite. You cut waste, you set priorities..."
- County Judge #TimothyOHare
This is the way!
cc: all local officials
Insanity! The City of Midlothian PROPOSING TO MASSIVELY RAISE PROPERTY TAXES!!...
Worse: they appear to be skirting Texas law requiring voter approval for huge tax hikes like this… setting their proposed rate only 0.000162 below a rate that would require an election.
Betrayal!!
I’m proud to represent Midlothian taxpayers in the Texas House… and, having been re-elected OVERWHELMINGLY by Midlothian voters in March, I can assure you my neighbors here deserve property tax cuts… not property tax hikes so large it’s almost illegal without a voter approval election!!
I’ll keep fighting to ELIMINATE PROPERTY TAXES… but in the meantime, it’s indefensible that local officials choose to keep raising them!
The #MidlothianTX City Council must REJECT this tax hike!!
Worse: they appear to be skirting Texas law requiring voter approval for huge tax hikes like this… setting their proposed rate only 0.000162 below a rate that would require an election.
Betrayal!!
I’m proud to represent Midlothian taxpayers in the Texas House… and, having been re-elected OVERWHELMINGLY by Midlothian voters in March, I can assure you my neighbors here deserve property tax cuts… not property tax hikes so large it’s almost illegal without a voter approval election!!
I’ll keep fighting to ELIMINATE PROPERTY TAXES… but in the meantime, it’s indefensible that local officials choose to keep raising them!
The #MidlothianTX City Council must REJECT this tax hike!!
MORE PROPERTY TAX HIKES!!:
The City of Waxahachie is proposing to RAISE PROPERTY TAXES so much it’s (almost) illegal!!
That’s right, they just adopted a proposed tax rate so much higher than last year’s effective tax rate (NNR)… that it is only 0.001094 under the rate that would make it ILLEGAL unless the voters approved it in an election. They clearly don’t want voters to get to decide!
I’m proud to represent every taxpayer in Waxahachie, and the last thing they need is HIGHER property taxes!!
The Waxahachie City Council must REJECT THIS PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX HIKE at their hearing on September 1st!
The City of Waxahachie is proposing to RAISE PROPERTY TAXES so much it’s (almost) illegal!!
That’s right, they just adopted a proposed tax rate so much higher than last year’s effective tax rate (NNR)… that it is only 0.001094 under the rate that would make it ILLEGAL unless the voters approved it in an election. They clearly don’t want voters to get to decide!
I’m proud to represent every taxpayer in Waxahachie, and the last thing they need is HIGHER property taxes!!
The Waxahachie City Council must REJECT THIS PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX HIKE at their hearing on September 1st!
Wow… looks like the City of Midlothian is trying to RAISE PROPERTY TAXES… AND DEBT!
Developing…
#MidlothianTX
Developing…
#MidlothianTX
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Texas needs a special session NOW to combat the threat from Sharia law!
McKinney City Council just voted 7-0 to approve the McKinney Islamic Association’s massive project that includes a mosque connected to a known SHARIA TRIBUNAL… and DFW airport is now installing Islamic foot washing stations.
Joined #MattLockeRadio on #WBAP247NEWS to discuss my demand for a special session on this and to start ELIMINATING PROPERTY TAXES!
Texans deserve ACTION… not just empty rhetoric!
McKinney City Council just voted 7-0 to approve the McKinney Islamic Association’s massive project that includes a mosque connected to a known SHARIA TRIBUNAL… and DFW airport is now installing Islamic foot washing stations.
Joined #MattLockeRadio on #WBAP247NEWS to discuss my demand for a special session on this and to start ELIMINATING PROPERTY TAXES!
Texans deserve ACTION… not just empty rhetoric!
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Taxation is theft!!
I’m fighting to make government as irrelevant to your life as possible, so we can be as free as God meant for us to be!!
Great time speaking at #YALiberty YALCON!
I’m fighting to make government as irrelevant to your life as possible, so we can be as free as God meant for us to be!!
Great time speaking at #YALiberty YALCON!
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Dear Texans, the number one job of government is to protect our God-given freedoms and liberties. Unfortunately, the government - at all levels - has become one of the greatest threats to them.
Raising taxes reduces freedom.
Watching elected officials, who are trying to raise property taxes, PLAY THE VICTIM CARD when their constituents object to having their taxes raised… might be the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen. It is a classic hallmark of leftists and cowards.
Ever since I first ran for office in 2021, I’ve promised voters I would fight for their LIBERTY… and would do everything in my power to stop government from stealing more of their hard-earned money. By exposing tax-and-spend politicians, who are proposing higher property taxes, I am keeping that promise!
Apparently tax-hiking politicians at all levels of government need to be reminded that raising property taxes at every opportunity demonstrates not only a lack of leadership, but worse, it is the exact opposite of “serving the community.”
I will not be intimidated, silenced, or bullied by liberal politicians who seek to harm my constituents by stealing more of the fruits of their labor through higher property taxes.
The last thing Texas needs are more go-along-to-get-along politicians who take the easy path instead of the righteous path… and who choose comfortable timidity instead of courageously standing on principal to boldly represent the THE PEOPLE.
I make no apologies for fighting as hard as possible for LESS GOVERNMENT, MORE FREEDOM... and to ELIMINATE PROPERTY TAXES!!
I’m fighting to make government as irrelevant to our lives as possible, so we can be as free as God meant for us to be!
For Liberty,
Brian
Raising taxes reduces freedom.
Watching elected officials, who are trying to raise property taxes, PLAY THE VICTIM CARD when their constituents object to having their taxes raised… might be the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen. It is a classic hallmark of leftists and cowards.
Ever since I first ran for office in 2021, I’ve promised voters I would fight for their LIBERTY… and would do everything in my power to stop government from stealing more of their hard-earned money. By exposing tax-and-spend politicians, who are proposing higher property taxes, I am keeping that promise!
Apparently tax-hiking politicians at all levels of government need to be reminded that raising property taxes at every opportunity demonstrates not only a lack of leadership, but worse, it is the exact opposite of “serving the community.”
I will not be intimidated, silenced, or bullied by liberal politicians who seek to harm my constituents by stealing more of the fruits of their labor through higher property taxes.
The last thing Texas needs are more go-along-to-get-along politicians who take the easy path instead of the righteous path… and who choose comfortable timidity instead of courageously standing on principal to boldly represent the THE PEOPLE.
I make no apologies for fighting as hard as possible for LESS GOVERNMENT, MORE FREEDOM... and to ELIMINATE PROPERTY TAXES!!
I’m fighting to make government as irrelevant to our lives as possible, so we can be as free as God meant for us to be!
For Liberty,
Brian
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From #DailySignal: Following the McKinney City Council’s approval of a mosque relocation and other incidents involving Texas residents, Republican state Rep. Brian Harrison is calling for the Texas Legislature to enter a special session to address the threat of Sharia law.
Last week, Harrison posted an interview on WBAP with radio host Matt Locke to discuss why he is calling for a special session “to deal with the threat of Sharia law.”
During the interview, Harrison told Locke that he believes the threat is growing. He pointed to what he described as two functioning Sharia tribunals in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
According to Harrison, elected officials in Texas have repeatedly stated that Sharia law is banned in the state, but he said that is “completely false.”
“Texans have been told that their government has been handling this problem, when they objectively have not been,” Harrison told the Daily Signal.
“I’ve been trying to push back on that gaslighting and trying to raise awareness of the issue because the only way we had conservative victories have come out of the Texas government, especially the Texas House, is when people rise up and demand public pressure for action.”
Harrison applauded Gov. Greg Abbott for designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations, but he said they are still able to freely operate in the state.
“I was glad the governor made the designation of CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, but last I checked, they’re still operating,” Harrison said. “Last I checked, their money is still freely flowing throughout the state of Texas. So, are they terror organizations or are they not?”
Part of Harrison’s plan calls for tighter reviews on the grant making process, as he says he has seen “ample evidence” that the state has been funding organizations with terror ties “through grant programs administered out of the governor’s office.”
According to a report by the RAIR Foundation, the Katy Muslim American Society, also known as Masjid Ar-Rahman, received more than $91,000 in taxpayer money through a state-approved grant.
The Middle East Forum also released a report in 2025, revealing that the Texas state government had provided “$13 million of federal and state monies to mosques and community groups aligned with Islamist movements” through grants.
In January, Harrison submitted a formal request for issues to be included in interim charges and subject to immediate hearings. Among those topics was combating the threat of Sharia law.
In his request, Harrison wrote that the Legislature should explore options to “end taxpayer funding, expand prohibitions on Sharia courts to all parts of the Texas code, close loopholes such as the statutory exemption that protected EPIC City, legislatively designate CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood as terror organizations, and gather input.”
Harrison said the time is now to take action and that there will be numerous bills filed next session to address the issue.
“The bottom line for me is Texans want results. They’re getting sick of empty rhetoric, and unfortunately, that’s a lot of what we have going on here,” Harrison told the Daily Signal.
From #DailySignal: Following the McKinney City Council’s approval of a mosque relocation and other incidents involving Texas residents, Republican state Rep. Brian Harrison is calling for the Texas Legislature to enter a special session to address the threat of Sharia law.
Last week, Harrison posted an interview on WBAP with radio host Matt Locke to discuss why he is calling for a special session “to deal with the threat of Sharia law.”
During the interview, Harrison told Locke that he believes the threat is growing. He pointed to what he described as two functioning Sharia tribunals in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
According to Harrison, elected officials in Texas have repeatedly stated that Sharia law is banned in the state, but he said that is “completely false.”
“Texans have been told that their government has been handling this problem, when they objectively have not been,” Harrison told the Daily Signal.
“I’ve been trying to push back on that gaslighting and trying to raise awareness of the issue because the only way we had conservative victories have come out of the Texas government, especially the Texas House, is when people rise up and demand public pressure for action.”
Harrison applauded Gov. Greg Abbott for designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations, but he said they are still able to freely operate in the state.
“I was glad the governor made the designation of CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, but last I checked, they’re still operating,” Harrison said. “Last I checked, their money is still freely flowing throughout the state of Texas. So, are they terror organizations or are they not?”
Part of Harrison’s plan calls for tighter reviews on the grant making process, as he says he has seen “ample evidence” that the state has been funding organizations with terror ties “through grant programs administered out of the governor’s office.”
According to a report by the RAIR Foundation, the Katy Muslim American Society, also known as Masjid Ar-Rahman, received more than $91,000 in taxpayer money through a state-approved grant.
The Middle East Forum also released a report in 2025, revealing that the Texas state government had provided “$13 million of federal and state monies to mosques and community groups aligned with Islamist movements” through grants.
In January, Harrison submitted a formal request for issues to be included in interim charges and subject to immediate hearings. Among those topics was combating the threat of Sharia law.
In his request, Harrison wrote that the Legislature should explore options to “end taxpayer funding, expand prohibitions on Sharia courts to all parts of the Texas code, close loopholes such as the statutory exemption that protected EPIC City, legislatively designate CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood as terror organizations, and gather input.”
Harrison said the time is now to take action and that there will be numerous bills filed next session to address the issue.
“The bottom line for me is Texans want results. They’re getting sick of empty rhetoric, and unfortunately, that’s a lot of what we have going on here,” Harrison told the Daily Signal.
I didn’t run for office to be loved by tax-hiking politicians or liberal bureaucrats…
I ran to serve THE PEOPLE… and fight to make them more FREE!!
Any politician trying to steal more money from my constituents by raising their property taxes… can expect to be called ou
I ran to serve THE PEOPLE… and fight to make them more FREE!!
Any politician trying to steal more money from my constituents by raising their property taxes… can expect to be called ou
Brian Harrison
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Texans deserve the TRUTH, not deception, about the Ellis County Judge’s proposed PROPERTY TAX INCREASE!
Republicans are supposed to shrink government and CUT TAXES, but this proposed budget does the opposite.
Voters deserve honesty and transparency about proposed budgets and tax hikes, but have instead been subjected to ever-changing math from Ellis County officials, who started making changes to their numbers after I exposed how big of a tax hike they proposed.
Thank you to the Ellis County GOP for allowing me to expose the TRUTH about this liberal budget, and I’m grateful for the hundred or so patriots who came last night to learn more. For those unable to make it, I’m posting the video. I know it’s long, and I go into great detail… hope it helps!
Key FACTS:
🔴 Ellis County is trying to RAISE PROPERTY TAXES
🔴 This proposal is a staggering 12.05% INCREASE from last year’s effective tax rate (rising from an effective rate of 0.244516 last year to 0.273992 this year), and these numbers came directly from Ellis County’s own website
➡️ This increase is what matters… don’t be distracted by discussion of revenue. The tax rate is what will determine how high your tax bill is, and the tax rate is going up over 12%
🔴 This proposed tax hike is so big that if it were only 0.006 higher, then it would be ILLEGAL unless voters approved it in an election
➡️ Ask yourself: what are the odds that the proposed tax rate just happened to be 0.006 lower than a rate that would force a voter approval election and allow the voters decide?? How convenient!
🔴 This budget creates more unelected bureaucracy and will diminish the power of the duly elected County Judge, who will take office next year.
➡️ These new bureaucrats will wield power over THE PEOPLE while taking power away from the elected County Judge and will cost taxpayers an extra ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
🔴 Raising taxes is bad enough, but what makes this such an abomination is that Ellis County is proposing to raise property taxes and steal more money from your back pockets… to PUT MORE OF YOUR MONEY IN THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND COUNTY JUDGE’S OWN BACK POCKETS!!
➡️ That’s right. They plan on hiking your property taxes to GIVE THEMSELVES A RAISE!!
No real Republican can support a budget this liberal.
If you want to make your voice heard, contact your County Commissioners and tell them to REJECT THIS TAX HIKING BUDGET!
Remind them that not one single County Commissioner campaigned promising to raise property taxes, but if they vote for this, that’s exactly what they’re doing… and they’d be betraying their voters and the conservative values they claim to have.
You can also speak against it at their hearing THIS Tuesday (the 18th) at 2:00pm.
Republicans are supposed to shrink government and CUT TAXES, but this proposed budget does the opposite.
Voters deserve honesty and transparency about proposed budgets and tax hikes, but have instead been subjected to ever-changing math from Ellis County officials, who started making changes to their numbers after I exposed how big of a tax hike they proposed.
Thank you to the Ellis County GOP for allowing me to expose the TRUTH about this liberal budget, and I’m grateful for the hundred or so patriots who came last night to learn more. For those unable to make it, I’m posting the video. I know it’s long, and I go into great detail… hope it helps!
Key FACTS:
🔴 Ellis County is trying to RAISE PROPERTY TAXES
🔴 This proposal is a staggering 12.05% INCREASE from last year’s effective tax rate (rising from an effective rate of 0.244516 last year to 0.273992 this year), and these numbers came directly from Ellis County’s own website
➡️ This increase is what matters… don’t be distracted by discussion of revenue. The tax rate is what will determine how high your tax bill is, and the tax rate is going up over 12%
🔴 This proposed tax hike is so big that if it were only 0.006 higher, then it would be ILLEGAL unless voters approved it in an election
➡️ Ask yourself: what are the odds that the proposed tax rate just happened to be 0.006 lower than a rate that would force a voter approval election and allow the voters decide?? How convenient!
🔴 This budget creates more unelected bureaucracy and will diminish the power of the duly elected County Judge, who will take office next year.
➡️ These new bureaucrats will wield power over THE PEOPLE while taking power away from the elected County Judge and will cost taxpayers an extra ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
🔴 Raising taxes is bad enough, but what makes this such an abomination is that Ellis County is proposing to raise property taxes and steal more money from your back pockets… to PUT MORE OF YOUR MONEY IN THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND COUNTY JUDGE’S OWN BACK POCKETS!!
➡️ That’s right. They plan on hiking your property taxes to GIVE THEMSELVES A RAISE!!
No real Republican can support a budget this liberal.
If you want to make your voice heard, contact your County Commissioners and tell them to REJECT THIS TAX HIKING BUDGET!
Remind them that not one single County Commissioner campaigned promising to raise property taxes, but if they vote for this, that’s exactly what they’re doing… and they’d be betraying their voters and the conservative values they claim to have.
You can also speak against it at their hearing THIS Tuesday (the 18th) at 2:00pm.
MYHT: “Rising property appraisals mean higher property taxes.”
FACT: Property taxes only go up if local elected officials VOTE to increase property taxes (by adopting rates higher than last year’s effective rate; also called no-new-revenue rate).
The average appraised values increase is known BEFORE the taxing entities adopt the new tax rate.
If appraised values go up X on average, then the taxing entities are supposed lower last year’s tax rate DOWN by X.
That is the NNR rate
Any tax rate above the no new revenue rate is a property tax hike.
Hope this helps!!
FACT: Property taxes only go up if local elected officials VOTE to increase property taxes (by adopting rates higher than last year’s effective rate; also called no-new-revenue rate).
The average appraised values increase is known BEFORE the taxing entities adopt the new tax rate.
If appraised values go up X on average, then the taxing entities are supposed lower last year’s tax rate DOWN by X.
That is the NNR rate
Any tax rate above the no new revenue rate is a property tax hike.
Hope this helps!!
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UPDATE (Bad): Ellis County Commissioners voted 4-1 to propose a PROPERTY TAX INCREASE!!
And this follows a BOMBSHELL admission tonight from (unelected) Ellis County Judge John Wray that the county "lost" approximately 20 million tax dollars!!
The Commissioners who voted FOR the proposed property tax hike were: Judge John Wray, Louis Ponder, Randy Stinson, and Kyle Butler.
The only Commissioner to vote for the taxpayers and AGAINST the proposed tax hike was Matt Zajic.
There will be a vote on final adoption soon, and I'll keep you posted.
If you live in Ellis County, tell your Commissioners "NO TAX HIKE!"
And this follows a BOMBSHELL admission tonight from (unelected) Ellis County Judge John Wray that the county "lost" approximately 20 million tax dollars!!
The Commissioners who voted FOR the proposed property tax hike were: Judge John Wray, Louis Ponder, Randy Stinson, and Kyle Butler.
The only Commissioner to vote for the taxpayers and AGAINST the proposed tax hike was Matt Zajic.
There will be a vote on final adoption soon, and I'll keep you posted.
If you live in Ellis County, tell your Commissioners "NO TAX HIKE!"